About National Productivity Council (NPC):
- NPC, established in 1958, is an autonomous organization under the Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
- It is a non-profit organization with equal representation from employers’ & workers’ organizations and the Government, apart from technical & professional institutions and other interests.
- Headquarters: New Delhi
- Objectives:
- To increase awareness of productivity in general, especially of the concepts and techniques aimed at strengthening the microeconomic foundations of economic development, rooted in operating practices and strategies of the organizations.
- To function as a think tank of the Government on measures needed to enhance focus on productivity
- To be among the premier productivity consultancy and training organizations of the country in the first phase and of the South & Southeast Asian region in the long run.
- To raise financial resources to sustain its operations on its own on a self-generating and continuing basis.
- Functions:
- Consultancy to organizations on productivity improvement.
- Training of personnel at different levels.
- Dissemination of productivity information through seminars, workshops, conferences, etc.
- Productivity Research and Database.
- Productivity Publications.
- Productivity Awards.
- It is a constituent of the Tokyo-based Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an Inter-Governmental Body of which the Government of India is a founding member.
